From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: font-lock: limiting anchored match region Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 19:33:48 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24604"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:80uwRNcDni7oznzgBfYiihO/Fcs= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 30 01:34:49 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mrr6f-0006Eo-DF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 01:34:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56314 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mrr6e-0003AI-9l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 19:34:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50846) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mrr5t-0003A1-IJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 19:34:01 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:60118) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mrr5r-0003cp-Fz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 19:34:01 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mrr5l-0004xK-QZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 01:33:53 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:134731 Archived-At: Marcus Harnisch [2021-11-29 17:38:49] wrote: > PRE-FORM of an anchored matcher allows for extending the match region beyond > the end of the current line (which is the default limit). Is there any > reason why that limit can't be changed to a position before the end of line? No there is no reason, which is why it is not the case that "that limit can't be changed to a position before the end of line". Stefan